Submit your films to “Merlinka“ Film Festival

The 9th International queer film festival “Merlinka” will be taking place from 7-13 December 2017 in the Main Hall of Dom omladine Beograda (Youth Center of Belgrade) – Belgrade, Serbia.

The main competition program of the festival will present only short queer films from all over the world produced in 2015 and 2016 (with possible exceptions). The films will be competing for Dorothy’s Slipper Award and money prize of 1000$. The festival’s main program will be accompanied by three side programs: Queer documentaries, Queer Featured films and Retrospective. The main focus of this year’s festival will be the force that motivates LGBT people to continuously work on improving lives of other LGBT people through politics, activism, art, media…, but this is not mandatory for official selection.

We invite film authors, as well as film arts students, to submit their films. The content of films submitted should be compatible with the festival’s framework (must be LGBTIQ-themed). Submission deadline is September 1, 2017.

Merlinka is non-profit festival and is organized by Gay Lesbian Info Centre (GLIC) in cooperation with Belgrade Youth Center.

Please use FilmFreeway, Festhome, Click  for festivals websites to submit your film:

Merlinka 7 – otvoren konkurs za filmove

Međunarodni festival queer filma „Merlinka“ počeo je da prima filmove koji konkurišu za takmičarsku selekciju na sledećem, sedmom po redu festivalu, koji će se održati od 7. do 13. decembra 2017. godine u Domu omladine Beograda.

Festival je posvećen filmovima koji se bave gej, lezbejskim, biseksualnim, transseksualnim, interseksualnim i queer temama. U takmičarskom programu biće prikazani kratki filmovi iz celog sveta, a stručni žiri će najboljem kratkom filmu dodeliti nagradu „Dorotina cipela“ i novčanu nagradu u vrednosti od 1000 dolara. Pored takmičarskog programa u okviru festivala biće prikazani prateći dokumentarni, igrani program i retrospektive.

Filmski stvaraoci, kao i studenti filmskih umetnosti, mogu da prijave svoje filmove, koji sadržajno spadaju u okvire festivala, do 1. septembra 2017. godine.

Festival organizuje Gej lezbejski info centar (GLIC) u saradnji sa Domom omladine Beograda.